The section's mission:

This mission includes, but is not limited to:

  • Enhancement of healthy lifestyles (by dietary counselling, exercise prescription/training and physical activity, psychosocial and motivational counselling/health, smoking cessation).
  • Risk factor management (e.g. obesity, diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia and non-conventional risk factors).
  • Implementation of comprehensive, multidisciplinary prevention and exercise-based rehabilitation programs (centre-based and tele-rehabilitation) for persons with acquired or congenital cardiovascular disease or elevated cardiovascular risk (including challenging populations such as organ transplant recipients or persons with chronic renal failure, frailty or cancer).
  • Basic and translational research to study the underlying mechanisms involved in the health-promoting effects of secondary prevention and rehabilitation, which will contribute to optimised treatments to persons with cardiovascular disease.
  • Use of digital health technologies, machine learning or artificial intelligence in the context
    of secondary prevention and rehabilitation.